2017

09/01/17

09/01/17

08/15/17

08/15/17

07/17/17

07/12/2017

In the context of the 20th International Conference on Information Fusion (Fusion 2017) in Xi’an, China, the ISIF Conference Technical Contributions Award has been presented to Uwe D. Hanebeck for contributing 50 or more FUSION Conference Papers from 1998 to 2017. Certificate

07/12/2017

In the context of the 20th International Conference on Information Fusion (Fusion 2017) in Xi’an, China, the ISIF Conference Service Award has been presented to Uwe D. Hanebeck for Contributions to FUSION Conference Organizations in the period from 1998 to 2017. Certificate

07/03/17

05/15/17

04/05/17

Dr. Jörg Fischer, who obtained his doctorate degree in 2014 at ISAS, has been appointed to a W2 professorship in automation and control at the department of electrical engineering and information technology at Offenburg University of Applied Sciences.

2016

11/29/16

By the IEEE Board of Directors, at its November 2016 meeting, Uwe D. Hanebeck has been elevated to IEEE Fellow, effective 1 January 2017, with the following citation: for contributions to nonlinear estimation and control. This is the highest grade of membership in the IEEE and IEEE's highest honor. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is the world's leading professional association for advancing technology for humanity with 400,000 plus members in 160 countries.

11/24/16

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has accepted the proposal Recursive Estimation of Rigid Body Motions.

05/11/15

04/24/15

Igor Gilitschenski successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation Deterministic Sampling for Nonlinear Dynamic State Estimation. The thesis has been co-advised and co-examined by Simon J. Julier, University College London (UCL), UK.

07/15/14

Jörg Fischer successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation Optimal Sequence-Based Control of Networked Linear Systems. The thesis has been co-examined by Daniel Quevedo, University of Newcastle, AU Pictures

06/07/13

The German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Czech Science Foundation (GACR) have both accepted the joint proposal Consistent Fusion in Networked Estimation Systems by ISAS and the research center New Technologies for the Information Society (NTIS) from the University of West Bohemia. In the following three years, researchers from both institutions will cooperatively investigate the consistent combination of uncertain information and develop estimators with guaranteed performance bounds.

05/31/13

The ISAS sends 10 researchers to the FUSION 2013 conference in Istanbul (Turkey), is involved in the presentation of 13 papers with ISAS participation, and organizes 9 special sessions. Prof. Hanebeck operates as Technical Co-Chair of the conference.

05/21/13

03/01/13

02/01/13

01/31/13

Daniel Lyons successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation Optimization under Uncertainty with Applications to Multi-Agent Coordination. The thesis has been co-advised and co-examined by Giuseppe Calafiore, Politecnico di Torino. Pictures

01/21/13

Benjamin Noack successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation State Estimation for Distributed Systems with Stochastic and Set-membership Uncertainties with distinction (summa cum laude). The thesis has been co-advised and co-examined by Simon J. Julier, University College London (UCL), UK. Pictures

01/18/13

Marcus Baum successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation Simultaneous Tracking and Shape Estimation of Extended Objects with distinction (summa cum laude). The thesis has been co-advised and co-examined by Peter Willett, University of Connecticut, USA. Pictures

09/28/12

07/17/12

During the Semester Colloquium of the Faculty of Informatics the tutorials of the lectures"Stochastische Informationsverarbeitung" and "Informationsverarbeitung in Sensornetzwerken" receive the award for the "best tutorial" of the winter term 2011/12.

12/03/10

12/01/10

11/02/10

10/01/10

09/06/10

Daniel Lyons, Achim Hekler, Markus Kuderer and Uwe D. Hanebeck were nominated for the Best Paper Award of the "IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems 2010" for the publication "Robust Model Predictive Control Incorporating Least Favorable Measurements".

04/30/09

04/28/09

Christian Hirsch was awarded a 3rd price of "Sparkassen price" 2008 for an outstanding work in the field environmental research - his Diplomarbeit "Tempo-Spatial Interpolation-Method for ground-water monitoring" (Trans.). (View Photo)

01/01/09

2008

12/18/08

12/16/08

Gregor Schwarzenberg successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation Analysis of the Mapping Properties of 3D-Ultrasound-Computer-Tomograph for the Calculation of the 3D-Transferfunction and Derivation of an Optimized Sensor Geometry (Trans.).

11/26/08

Alberto Elfes (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory) gives a talk on "In Situ Sensing in the Amazon" at the ISAS.

01/07/08 - 04/07/08

2007

12/06/07

11/22/07

The collaborating graduate school from Tampere, Finland visits the Research Training Group RTG 1194 in Karlsruhe. View Photos (PDF-document)

11/09/07

The ISAS lab and mentored students visit the ZDF television station in Mainz. In the afternoon, the lab visited the Vitronic company in Wiesbaden, attending a talk on technological aspects of truck toll collection followed by a guided tour of Vitronic's production facilities. View Photos (PDF-document)

July 2005

An article in the campus news UniKaTH (issue 3/2005) features the new Graduiertenkolleg "Self-organizing Sensor-Actuator-Networks" of the Department of Computer Sciene and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology.

06/01/05

May 2005

04/29/05

The ISAS lab and the mentored students (winter term 2003/04 and 2004/05) [group picture] visit the Europapark (amusement park) near Rust. Mr. Gronau gave us a tour of the backstage area. More pictures are available here (PDF).

10/19/04

10/08/04

Funding for the Graduiertenkolleg "Development of New Computer Based Methods for the Future Working Space in Soft-Tissue Surgery" was granted by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Spokes-person for the Kolleg are Prof. Büchler (Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg). Vice-spokes-person is Prof. Wörn. The ISAS lab will be involved in the project "Motion-Synchronisation of Instruments with the Correponding Interventional Area of the Beating Heart" in the project "Telemanipulation". Contact at ISAS is Kathrin Roberts.

10/01/04

Prof. Hanebeck becomes "Studiendekan" for computer science for the term starting 01.10.2004 and ending 30.9.2008.

09/01/04

The project "Self-Organising Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks for Industrial and Ubiquitous Applications (SELINA)" will be funded as part of the research focus program of the state of Baden-Württemberg by the Department of Science, Research and Art. Funding starts 01.09.2004 and ends 31.08.2006. Applicant is Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Uwe Brinkschulte. Other involved scientists are Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Becker, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe D. Hanebeck, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klaus Müller-Glaser, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Heinz Wörn, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Martina Zitterbart.

07/14/04

The Ringvorlesung is now downloadable [Pdf-Document]. File size is 24MB and requires Acrobat 6!

07/01/04

The Intelligent Sensor-Actuator-Systems (ISAS) lab joins the collaborative research project "Humanoid Robots" (SFB 588, Spokesman: Prof. Dillmann) of the "Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft". Prof. Hanebeck will be joint head with Prof. Wörn of the project "K2 human-robot-ooperation" and with Prof. Steusloff of the project "K3 detection and treatment of exceptional situations". Prolonged funding has been granted until 08/31/2008.

02/05/04

2003

11/17/03

11/03/03

Start of a cooperation with the Prüftechnik company from Munich for the "Development of a New Measurement Principle on the Basis of a Kinematic Alignment Model for the Optimal Alignment of Multi-Axis Tool Machinery". Contact at ISAS is Dietrich Brunn.